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Trump floats changing Defense Department to Department of War: "We want to be offensive, too, if we have to be" (www.cbsnews.com)
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[โ€“] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

President Harry Truman pushed for different branches of service to be combined into a single Department of National Defense in 1947, telling Congress the move was necessary to "cut costs and at the same time enhance our national security."

Emphasis mine.

This is somehow the funniest part of the article for me. The bourgeois obsession of cost-cuttinf is as old as the bourgeoise themselves.

[โ€“] huf@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

the bourgeois obsession with talking about cost cutting while grifting the government even harder, you mean